How To Get Rid Of Flies

Summer time is the peak time for fly infestations, this is when they're most active and rapidly reproduce sometimes resulting in the need for professional pest control for flies. Keeping flies away from your food is vital for protecting your health. Flies feed by vomiting saliva onto your food, stamping their dirty legs up and down in it and then sucking up the resulting liquid. It's the bacteria from its gut that can transmit everything from food poisoning to cholera.

Types of Fly

Four of some of the most common types of flies in the UK include cluster fly, blue bottle, black fly and deer fly. Knowing the type of fly that’s in or near your home can be useful in identifying the best pest control for flies. 

Cluster flies generally emerge during summer and autumn and find hiding places in homes and properties, where they typically enter through crevices and holes in lofts windows or walls. They typically feed on earthworms in gardens and then search for warmth indoors to hibernate for winter months. 

Signs of Fly Infestation

Seeing a few flies in your home or business is no cause for concern and shouldn't need professional pest control for flies but when their numbers increase and swatting them doesn’t effect the amount, you may have a fly infestation in your property. It needs urgent attention and treatment, here are the signs to look out for:

• Seeing many flies inside or around your property - keeping rubbish bins outside can attract flies and once they're near your home, you can expect that sooner or later they'll enter your home.
• Look for dark spot clusters on windows, window frames and sills. You can also spot them on any light-coloured surface in your home such as curtains, towels, tablecloths or laundry left hanging to dry.
• A sudden increase in numbers means that flies are reproducing fast inside your home and you should take urgent measures to control them.
• Most often flies will lay their eggs in rubbish which later turn into maggots. Flies can lay up to 900 eggs, which can hatch within the next 48 hours. 
• Clusters of flies in one spot, near water or light. When there’s a fly infestation, you're likely to see several that have landed on the same place at once.

How to Get Rid of Flies

Flies are attracted to many things inside and around your home or business which may result in the need for active pest control for flies. The house fly is attracted mostly to rubbish and waste organic matter, so pretty much everything that is usually in your rubbish bins - rotting organic products, food scraps etc. House flies are attracted to other flies' specks, liquids that are fermented, such as expired juice, spilled juice, rotting fruit and sweets. They're also attracted to things such as pet food and water, dead and rotting animal carcasses, water, light and warmth as well as decaying vegetation in your garden.

When dealing with a fly infestation, prevention is better than cure such as using natural fly repellent, homemade fly traps to kill them off before they start reproducing and plants to help ward flies such as mint, basil, rosemary, marigold and catnip. Flies also detest the smell of vodka, lemongrass, peppermint, lavender, cloves, eucalyptus and citronella smoke, so using these in and around your home or business could help deter flies and the need for pest control for flies.

Pest Control For Flies From AJ Pest Control

If you're experiencing a fly infestation in your home, office or commercial property, get in touch with us as soon as possible to protect your family and staff health.

We'll carry out a detailed inspection of your property to assess the degree of the problem and recommend the best course of action for pest control for flies. We'll also provide advice and recommendations for preventing flies and the need for professional pest control treatment going forward.